Electrical signs manufacturing · Kentucky

Ruggles Sign co

Versailles, KY · ~107 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ruggles Sign co runs at 126% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Electrical signs manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Ruggles Sign co: 4.2 TCR = 126% of Electrical signs manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ruggles Sign co safety composite

Ruggles Sign co scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 43%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

D

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

TCR Δ

−4.9

2017→2024

Ruggles Sign co injury rate improved

Ruggles Sign co's TCR fell 4.9 from 7.5 in 2017 to 2.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 7.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=7.5 · 2018=3.9 · 2021=2.9 · 2022=5.5 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=2.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339950 · Versailles, KY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 126% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #3/5
  • PHOTO Barnett Signs Inc
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~107 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Barnett Signs Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ruggles Sign co in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Ruggles Sign co averages 4.2 TCR (126% of the Electrical signs manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Ruggles Sign co TCR series: 2017=7.5 · 2018=3.9 · 2021=2.9 · 2022=5.5 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=2.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Ruggles Sign co falls in its industry

405 Electrical signs manufacturing establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 5 Electrical signs manufacturing employers in Kentucky.

Ruggles Sign co (107 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 3.5 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 0100200300 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Ruggles Sign co
Ruggles Sign co (107 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Ruggles Sign co has more employees than the Electrical signs manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 2.6 1.7 3 0 0
2023 2.5 0.8 3 0 0
2022 5.5 1.8 6 0 0
2021 2.9 2.9 3 0 0
2018 3.9 0.0 4 0 0
2017 7.5 1.9 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339950 · KY · Versailles

405 Electrical signs manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 24 employers in Versailles, KY · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Barnett Signs Inc 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Allen Industries Inc.-Mount Airy 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Leon's Signs, Inc 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sign Pro Inc 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ale-8-One Bottling Company 107 FTE
STATE-SIZE West Sixth Brewing Company, LLC 107 FTE
STATE-SIZE Crane Composites 107 FTE
STATE-SIZE thyssenkrupp Rothe Erde USA Inc 107 FTE
CITY-NEAR VERSAILLES KY 436 FTE
CITY-NEAR Yokohama Industries America 346 FTE
CITY-NEAR Yokohama Industries Americas Inc. Division 1 343 FTE
CITY-NEAR 024-00774 314 FTE
NAT-TCR American Timber and Steel, Inc 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR PYCO Industries Inc. 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Sunstate Plumbing, Inc 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Tullis, Inc. 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Albemarle Care Center LLC 107 FTE
NAT-SIZE Behlen Mfg. Co. 107 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fresh Market Park City 107 FTE
NAT-SIZE PDM Precast 107 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.